Life of Mrs. Marie
The person I interviewed was Marie W, one of my friend’s grandma who is from Ukraine. She was born on September 15, 1930 in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. She grew up in a relatively big family. There were four brothers and five sisters, including my friend’s grandma that lived. By the time, she was five years old she lived in the small town and she had a best elderly friends there who was also her babysitters. I liked him a lot I also call him a grandma and she never mind it. However, I had known a lot of things about her, but I also knew I could always learn more. Therefore, this is the reason I am doing her interview because I never had the opportunity to ask her about her childhood and I knew this would be the perfect time.
When she was five years old, her father, Isaac, get a job in the Mariupol, Ukraine, a town on the Azov Sea. He worked as a manager to store the oil in the ships. That was the first time they moved from their place to big town. They lived right near by the Azov Sea. Mrs. Marie W, had a lot of friends there whom she used to play with after the school. She is still in the contact with their friends. Mrs. Marie W, is a good students and she did well in all of her school and loved to read the books in his free time. She lived in the Mariupol by the time she was eight years old. As a young child she was not afraid of anyone and used to protect smaller children and often times she got into fights with the bigger kids. The time came when the World War II get started and ended her childhood.
It was the time when the Nazis were trying to capture Ukraine and since they were the Jewish they had no ways out but to run away. Within a very short time after they had left, the Nazi cap...
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...d she also traveled over the countries every summer.
At the last, I conclude by saying that though there was a life of full of difficulties we does not have to lose the hope as my friends have overcome her difficulties. Shortly after that my friend was born on November 23, 1989, and her grandma retired from his job and help her daughter to take care of my friend. Mrs. Marie W said the day I was born was the happiest day of her life. However, we lived in Kazakhstan till the year of 1991. In the late 80s Soviet Jews were finally allowed to move to Israel. Before this, they were persecuted even for trying to move out of Soviet Union. Finally, my friend’s father got a job in the United States and they moved there in October 1991 and started their new life. I am very glad I did this interview about her because I found out many new things that I didn’t know before.
In the novel “The Diary of Laura’s Twin by Kathy Kacer is about a girl named Laura who is having her bat mitzvah and gets assigned to do a project about a kid from the holocaust who never had got the chance to have a bat mitzvah. Laura gets a diary from an old woman but does not know it’s her diary from when she was a little girl. As she reads it learns that the girl Sara is around her age and is living in the Warsaw ghetto during the holocaust with her bother, sister, mom, dad, grandpa, grandma and her best friend Deena. As Laura is reading the book in her life she goes throw problems with her friends and other kids from her school destroying gravestones.
... an important event in any Jewish child’s life, and which, also, makes it interesting for us.
For thousands of years people have left their home country in search of a land of milk and honey. Immigrants today still equate the country they are immigrating to with the Promised Land or the land of milk and honey. While many times this Promised Land dream comes true, other times the reality is much different than the dream. Immigration is not always a perfect journey. There are many reasons why families immigrate and there are perception differences about immigration and the New World that create difficulties and often separate generations in the immigrating family. Anzia Yezierska creates an immigration story based on a Jewish family that is less than ideal. Yezierska’s text is a powerful example of the turmoil that is created in the family as a result of the conflict between the Old World and the New World.
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I decided to watch the testimony of Sally Roisman, a holocaust survivor. Sally had a strictly orthodox family, with a mother, father, and 10 siblings. Their family owned a textile mill which made dresses and suits. Sally attended a Jewish girls school but didn’t get the chance to finish her education before her school was closed down. Her teachers said very good things about her and that made her and her mother happy. Sally later returned and studied to finish school after the war. She still studies to make up for her loss today. Her family lived in an apartment complex were 15 families lived. 50% of the families were Jews in the complex.
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